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Transcriber's note:
Text enclosed by underscores is in italics (_italics_).
The headings in the table of contents do not always match
the headings in the text. The subsections do not have their
own heading, but refer to the page where his writing on
this topic starts.
The mistakes mentioned in the erratum list on page viii
have all been incorporated in the text.
A list of corrections to the text can be found at the end
of the document.
A
COLLECTION of ESSAYS
AND
FUGITIV WRITINGS.
ON
MORAL, HISTORICAL, POLITICAL and LITERARY
SUBJECTS.
BY NOAH WEBSTER, JUN.
ATTORNEY AT LAW.
Heureuses les villes qui, comme les individus, n'ont
point encore pris leur pli! Elles feules peuvent aspirer
à des loix unanimes, profondes et sages.
TABLEAU DE PARIS.
Printed at Boston, for the Author,
by I. Thomas and E. T. Andrews,
at Faust's Statue, No. 45, Newbury Street.